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Number of people that Facebook is growing reached via Tor to a million

Apr

22

2016

Facebook now registers a monthly average of one million users that approximates the social network via Tor. In June last year that figure was just over half a million. Facebook offers the option since 2014.

In order to get the monthly average of one million counts Facebook users together who facebook.com or onion-site visits with the Tor browser, or via Orbot on Android. In 2014 put Facebook facebookcorewwwi.onion and the mobile version of the site online, allowing no exit node is required to visit the Tor Browser.

Since January provides the social network support for Tor connections to its Android app from the Orbot proxy app. In addition, Facebook points to the role played by it in order to ensure that the Internet Engineering Task Force .onion pointed as special-use domain name.

The average number of one million in thirty days is negligible on the total number of Facebook users but the company allows it important to find to provide methods to safely use its services. Among other dissidents to use Tor to surf the Internet anonymously for reasons of privacy and safety,.